Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-20
THE STATE TEXTBOOKS.
Plan for Their DistributiOn by
the Law Just Passed.

THE STATE TEXTBOOKS.
Plan for Their Distribution by
the Law Just Passed.
The Governor has approved Senate
Bill No. 426, which provides for the sale
and distribution of the State series of
school textbooks. Nearly every fam.
lily in the State is interested, aud we
give below the method of distribution as
provided in the bill:
"All orders for textbooks shall be
made on the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and shall be accompanied
by cash, in payment for the same, at
the price fixed by the State Board of
Education as the cost price at Sacra-
mento; provided, that if the books are
to be shipped by mail, the cost of post.
age shall also accompany the order. The
following persons shall be entitled to
order books:
81. County SuperiDtendonts Of
Schools, for the use of teachers. par.
ents and pupils in their counties only.
"2. Principals of State Normal
schools, for their own and for the use
Of the pupils in their respective schools
only.
"3. The Secretary or Clerk of any
school district in the State, whether in.
corporated or operating under the gen
eral law of the State, for the use of the
pupils in such district only; but no books
ordered by the County Superintendents,
Or Clerks of District Boards of Trustees,
or Principals of State Normal schools,
shall be sold at a price exceeding the
cost price at Sacramento, with the actual
cost of freight and carriage added.
~. Any retail dealer who shall first
transmit to the State Superintendent oi
Public Instruction an affidavit duly sub
scribed by him in substance as follows,
to.wit:
"'In consideration of receiving for sale,
upon the enclosed or upon any future
order, the series of school textbooks, or
any part thereof, published by the State
of California, 1 hereby agree that 1 will
not sell the same to any person or per-
sons for the purpose Of being sold again,
or to any person or persons beyond the
limits of the State of California, and
that will not sell said series of text.
books, or any part or portion thereof, at
a price exceeding the price to the pupil
fixed by the State Board Of Education. ;
''Said affidavit shall be indorsed by the
County Superintendent in the following
words, viz:
"'I hereby certify that A. B. is a regu.
lar retail dealer in school books in this
county.
&c. D., County Superintendent.
at shall be the duty of the State Su.
perintendent of Public Instruction to
furnish at once to each County Superin.
tendent, for the use of any dealer in his
county who may apply for permission
to sell the books of the State series,
printed copies Of the above affidavit, to.
gether with the list of prices of such
books fixed as the cost price at Sacra-
mento, and the price to the pupil, and
any dealer who shall fail to comply with
the conditions of said affidavit shall for.
felt his right to any further purchase of
said books from the State. And it shall
be the duty of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction to report to the State
Controller, ON or before the 9th day of
every month. the number of books sold
by him during the preceding month, and
pay the money received for the same
into the State treasury. 1t shall also be
the duty of the Superintenden of State
Printing, ON or before the 9Th day of
every month, to report to the State Con.
troller the number and value of the
books shipped by him on the order of
the State superintendent of Public In.
struction, and the number and value of
the finished books on hand.
SIT shall be the duty of the Boards Of
Supervisors of the counties, or cities and
counties, in this State, to provide re-.
volving fund, for the purpose of en-.
abling the County School Superintend.
ents to purchase the State text. books;
all moneys to be taken therefrom to be
replaced by moneys received from the
sale of said books to the scholars of the
public schools of his county,. either by
himself, or by the teachers of the public
schools, or the Clerks of Boards of Dis.
trict Trustees.
"All school books compiled by the
State shall be furnished to the public
school children of the State at the cost
of printing, publishing and distributing
the same, said cost to be ascertained and
fixed by the State Board of Education,
on or before the 18th day of June, of
each school year; and it is further en-.
acted that the cost of distribution shall
be taken to be cost of postage required
for mailing each hook.
Sand this act shall he in force from
and after it's passape."
The price-list has been fixed bv the
State Board of Education as follows:
First Reader, at Sacramento. Is cents:
by mail or purchased from bookseller. 20
cents.
Second Reader, at Sacramento. 30
cents; by mail or purchased from book.
seller, 3S cents.
Third Reader, at Sacramento. 40 cents:
by mail or purchased from bookseller. SO
,ents.
Speller, at Sacramento, 20 cents: bv
nail or purchased from bookseller, 26
,ents. -'
The above pr ces were Fixed bv the
ormer State Board of Education. and n |
will be seen that set Of the readers sent
y mail to any part of the State costs
he consumer 81 10, while q set of tbe
eaders now in use costs from 81. so to
3. O5. Superintendent Hoitt thinks that
he Board at its next meeting will make
be price OF the Second Reader to the
upil 40 cents, instead of 3S cents. and
the Third Reader so oents, instead Of